Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-06-18

PREMIUM AT THE CITRUS FAIR
Held in DeoeL Der, 1856, and she has since
been looked upon as the banner county for
citrus fruits. From an orange standpoint.
where the soil and climate are most favor
able for large and early crop of citrus
fruits, El Dorado county offers equal in
ducements to the home-seeker with Placer.
Butte or Los Angeles. If this was all the
immigrant was i'll quest OF, "a land of
oranges and perfect climate" he could 90
10 no better place to find that in quest OF
than in El Dorado While this is an at
traction that lures the immigrant from the
rigors of Eastern winters, which is a
tempting morsel to the invalid, Fl Dorado
offers much more. The citrus fruits is one
of the
SMALLEST OF HER MANY ATTRACTIONS
Take, for instance, the much-praised
and even overrated Los Angeles In that
section water for irrigation is of first i'm
portance. The character of the soil in
Southern California is of such character
that without it all vegetation dies. The
country without irrigation is tsrrph. Ii
is only by the introduction Of water at
great expense, and generally from long
distance, that productiYeness of soil is ac-
quired. When this has been accomplished.
and at such cost, the soil will not even then
produce equal to that in Fl Dorado
The entire water supply of Los Angeles
county viii not irrigate one twentieth part
of her sandy, rocky soil. There is not a
stream IN the county of sufficient size to
turn the wheel Of a small grist-mill. Her
rainfall annually is from ten to fourteen
inches, while that of FL Dorado is frcm
thirty-slx TO forty-six inches, divided over
a period of four or five months, and that.
too, without inundations and washouts. .os
Angeles boasts of but her oranges and her
grapes, while
THE ORANGES OF Ell DORADO ARE sUPE-
RIoR,
StIll her other crops, and those which can
not be produced in Los Angeles, are very
much more profitable. 1t is not pretended
By the people of the south that thev can
compare even favorably with the FL Do
rado foothills in the production of aprieots.
peaches, pears, apples, figs-in fact. any
kind of fruit While it is not the inten
tion to disparage the southern portion of
the State, still ii is fact undisputed that
| those who have resided in both sections
are unanimous in their choice of the foot
hills Of El Dorado; and why? The soil
In FL Dorado IS much superior in every
respect. The climate is equally as good
LAID is cheaper, fRel is plentiful. while
water, that greatest gift Of nat,Ire. in ali
its crystalline purity threads all her lands
like ribbons of silver, and is free to every
man for its very taking The water sun
ply of this county,
HER SYSTEM OF CANALS,
Are superior to those of any like extent of
territory on the face of the globe How
ever, Fl Dorado is moi a section where
water is fhe life of everything that springs
from her soil. Fruit trees and vines. os-iina
to the character and depth of soil. need no
irrigation During this4y-three years
residence OF the writer in this section \
/ drought was never heard o: and failuye
OF crops something never knova.
This county has length from east TO
west Of about seventy miles and breadth
from north to sonth Of from tEiriy-live 10
forty. Along her western borders stretches
BELT OF PRAIRIE LAND.
This level land, rolling prairies and con-